Or they can be forced to destroy or retrain their models without any copyright materials for which they don't have or do not now attain licenses for. These are multi-billion/trillion dollar companies. They can afford to be responsible members of society here, however much their shareholders and C-suite might hate it.
>Or they can be forced to destroy or retrain their models
Perhaps.
The media industries have been quite successful in going after kids torrenting movies.
I suspect they'll have less luck going after big tech & an industry drowning in money inflows.
Keep in mind various large techs have already issued blanket indemnities on infringement to their customers. They're absolutely committed & are gonna throw enough lawyers at this to keep everyone busy until 2030.
>They can afford to be responsible members of society here
oh absolutely agree, but they're not going to do that. This is an industry built on questionable practices like tracking after all
This. The models are out there. Maybe they will just be illicitly shared but even if no new models are trained from scratch I suspect there will be many ways to use extend existing models without going back to scraped images.
I always felt that we already had a solution - I can already get all those images from a web search. Where the law currently intervenes is when I try and distribute works based on close copies of them. Why is this insufficient?
Sure. And neither are mp3s of the same songs that were blowing up on Napster.
The existence of widespread illegal means to procure something doesn't mean that we don't and shouldn't require legitimate businesses to abide by the law or require them to make amends for their current transgressions.
